For men between 55 and 67, taking testosterone therapy doesn’t seem to make them more likely to die from any cause over 18 years — their risk is about the same as men who don’t take it.

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Testosterone replacement therapy is not associated with increased prostate cancer incidence, prostate cancer-specific, or cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in Finnish men

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This study looked at older men taking testosterone therapy and found they didn’t die more often than men not taking it — in fact, their death rate was slightly lower. So the claim that testosterone therapy doesn’t increase the risk of dying is backed up by this research.

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Testosterone replacement therapy is not associated with increased prostate cancer incidence, prostate cancer-specific, or cardiovascular disease-specific mortality in Finnish men

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DOI: 10.1080/0284186X.2023.2278189

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